Improvement in newspaper-files



@tutti Gettin. i

L. CLPRINDLE, or` CHICA-Go, ILLINOIS.

Laim Patent No. 93,475, lated august 10, 1869.

IMPROEMENT IN NEWSPAPER-FILES.'

The 'Schedulepreferred to in these Letters` Patent and making part 0f the Same.

To a-ZZ whcm it may concern Be it known that I, L. C. PRINDLE, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Newspaper-Files and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and .the letters and gures marked thereon, which form a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l represents a side viewof my filer;

Figure 2,A a section at the line a: in iig. l; and

Figure 3, a top view of the clamp-band, with section of wire at y. I

The nature of my linvention consists in the springband or ring, provided with slots, as hereafter described, and attached to the rod or handle and It also consists in the combination, with the same,

. of the bent rod or wire, hereafter described, that'passes through the paper to hold it in place.

lo enable those skilled in the art to understand how to manufacture and use my-'inventiom I willproceed to describe the' same with particularity.

The same letters of reference refer to' the corre-v sponding parts in the diii'erent figures.

I 'make a rod, A, of any suitable length, to be adapted to the size ofthe paper to be filed.

I usually make said rod of wood, but it may be made of any suitable material, and it may be made suii-.V

ciently long, so that one end will project out from the paper, land serve as a handle to hold the le of papers by when reading them.v

I attach to said rod the Imetallic rings or bands B,

the ends of which lap by each other, as clearly shown inI iig. 2, on one side ofthe rod A, while they -are `ast-v ened to the rod, at the opposite side, by the screws C.

These bands are made a little larger than the rod A, and there are slots, D, in their ends, that lap over each other.

E is a bent wire, the straight part of which should be nearly as long as the paper on le.

lThe ends of this rod are turned over, as shown in the drawing, in such a way .as t form -a spring, as hereafter described, and pass through the slots D, in the bands, where they are clamped and held.

sary to clasp the band B, and press the ends togetherl till they release the rod, when it can be removed.

To place papers onthe le, the rod E isA removed from the rod B by unclasping the ends from the springbands or clasps B. The ends of the rod are then run through the paper, and reclasped in the claspsB, when the papers are held firmly between the straight part of the Wire E andthe rod A, being kept from slipping or falling out by the ends of the wire passing through them.

. The ends ofthe Wire being bent over, as shown, ad` mits of the vwire springing, so as to rile4 more or less papers, and, at `-the same time, hold them well in place. But, if it is desirable to increase 'the filing-capacity of the filer, diierent notches could be made on the ends of the wire, s o that they might be held projecting more or less through the clasp-bands B.

It will be seen that my newspaper-filer is simple, cheap, reliable,- and durable.`

Having fully. described the construction and operation of my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters.

Patent, is-

1. The hand-clasp B, when constructed and operating in'- a filer, substantially as and for the purposes specified. I

2. Thexvire E, when constructed and operating in a ler, substantially as and described.

L. C. PRINDLE.

Witnesses:

L. L. OOBURN, F. O. BRUNsi and for the purposes shown 

